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...loss at $600,000, said he had $23,000 insurance, declared that the fire was incendiary, set by enemies of the Passion Play which, he said, "aroused terrific opposition among an element of this community which I have fought for 30 years." An anti-Volivan named Rev. Theodore Pfeiffer denied that the fire was set but admitted there had been opposition. "The fire," he said, "was a judgment of God against the turning of the Tabernacle into a theatre." This week a Zionite named Thomas Griffith, 19, confessed to setting the fire, with kerosene, "to get even with Overseer Voliva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passion in Ashes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Robert B. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum today announced that the gift of a valuable collection of ancient pottery and glassware has been received from the estate of the late Reverend Mr. George S. Fiske '91 of Boston. The collection has been placed on public display at the museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMITIC MUSEUM GETS COLLECTION OF RELICS | 2/11/1937 | See Source »

...History; E. B. Hill, Music; William E. Hocking, Philosophy; Arthur N. Holcombe, Government; E. A. Hooton, Anthropology; D. H. McLaughlin, Geology; D. H. Menzel, Astronomy; Andre Morize, Committee for Elementary Modern Language Instruction; James B. Munn, English; A. J. McMullen, English; C. Palache, Mineralogy; T. Parsans, Sociology; R. H. Pfeiffer, Semitic; P. J. Sachs, Fine Arts; F. A. Saunders, Physics; J. R. Ware, Indic Philology; and R. H. Wetmore, Biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 64 ELECTED TO POSTS ON FACULTY COUNCIL DURING REST OF YEAR | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...pieces in the display are 110 selected sets, a loan from Mr. G.A. Pfeiffer, of New York City, and include the famous Hammond collection from London. Together they cover a period of four centuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kings, Queens, Bishops Rule Semitic Museum as Show of Chessmen Open | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

According to information received yesterday from Serge Elisseeff, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and professor of H. Pfeiffer, chairman of the present Division of Semitic Languages and History, and assistant professor of Semitic Languages, the independence of the Division of Semitic Languages is not threatened by the plan for a new Division of Oriental Languages. The statement in Monday's CRIMSON that the new Division Oriented Languages, (in which there will be the then Department of Semitic Languages and History), will in any way absorb the latter is "an absurdity, a mistake, and a misstatement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrong Again | 5/21/1936 | See Source »

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